HDD Death Domino Effect ! 7200 or SSD ?

[Defiance_co]

Hiya's,

I've lost count of how many hdd's i've gone through in over two decades of building rigs

But recently i've had one after another fail lol

Ok they're out of warranty, but they sure choose the worst time to fail on me

I was redoing a vanilla install of x-plane 10, also shifting precious data across drives, and had beta on another hdd, boom, my largest 7200 hdd died, somehow corrupted windose, good ole SFC /SCANNOW did the biz, redid x-plane and steam for a game i play

Lost around 1.5tb of my precious data, only a fraction i had already started to spread across remaining drives

For all my double and triple attempts at saving data i've still lost out to the domino effect grrrrrrrrrr

Off the top of my head in the last 18mths i've lost five drives to use n abuse

So, today i am running late so can't make the shop to replace my 2tb hdd

But i have a dilemma ........

Just spent on a gtx 1080 (pretty dazzling performance) so do i get a 3Tb 7200 spinner, or a 500gb SSD

My funds at the moment can only stretch to around 150 sterling

At the minute i have OS and Vanilla x-plane on C: 128gb SSD, and a 500gb SSD (few months old) and an aging and dare i say it, about to clap out 250gb 7200 spinner lol

My thinking was, 500gb ssd same as one i got not long back (replaced another dead 7200 spinner) use the new 500gb ssd for OS + My main x-plane with all the goodies, my first 500gb ssd for beta testing etc, salvage n sift data onto the 250gb spinner

Or slap a 3tb spinner in, slap all i can on it, redo windose on the 500gb ssd, have x-plane on it too, and use the 128gb ssd for vanilla x-plane backup and small amounts of data, and use the 250gb spinner knowing she'll prolly die sometime soon as my luck's going lol

WWYD ??

Cheers

Have Fun

Tony

ps : OS install means another slot off each aircraft/smp/rwc etc